1. Using Exhibits in TMG & Pathwiz!
Diana Johnson
16 April 2011

2. Unlock the Past Cruise 2011

3. Who am I ? Married to Trevor – a non genie!
Mother to two beautiful children who left us too soon
B.A. Hons; M.B.A.; G.C.C.M
IT professional with IBM Australia Ltd
10 years of family history research
Core research areas: England, France
Extended areas: Scotland, NZ, Australia & US
Website:

4. Agenda TMG Exhibit Log Exhibits Pathwiz! What? Where? How?
Examples in my database
Pathwiz!

5. TMG Exhibit Log Types of Exhibits Images Audio Video Text OLE Objects
Will of James Rout
Types of Exhibits
Images
Audio
Video
Text
OLE Objects
George Whitby’s wedding July 1901
Amy Starr
c 1900
Map of Molland
Church Street, Ware

6. Attaching Exhibits Attach to… Usage Examples Where Person duh!
Person View
Event
wedding, baptism, graduation etc
Source
A letter, a will, an obituary, etc
Master Source List
Place
Images of the area
Master Place List
Repository
Eg. an inventory of all artifacts in your home repository
Master Repository
Citation
Census printout, birth certificate etc
General Topics
None of the above….
Exhibit Log

7. Examples from my Sandbox
People
Events
Places

8. Exhibit Properties General Audio
Topic – Exhibit Name (use in filtering & sorting)
Reference – to any artifact numbering system you may use or paper items
External Path
Audio
Info – Technical info describing exhibit
Description – identifies the exhibit in detail and by caption
Filters – by Type of exhibit and by Exhibit Name

9. By BeeSoft 2007

10. Pathwiz! by Beesoft Author Bryan Wetton, resident in South Australia
Web sites
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Gould Genealogy
Price $25 AUD

11. Functions Change Exhibit Log details Create an Exhibit Catalogue (
Path, topic, caption, reference, description or exhibit file name
Create an Exhibit Catalogue (
MSWord, pdf, CSV, etc
All exhibits or filtered list
10 routines that operate globally on the entire Exhibit Log
Image Editing capabilities
Advanced Functions
Toggle alternative exhibit paths to a “skinny” image set
Replace internal/external exhibits

12. Pathwiz! Demo
By an inexperienced amateur
With apologies to Bryan

13. Questions?

14. Backup

15. Internal vs External Exhibits
Backup
Automatic backup but it takes longer
User controlled as required
Change Location
Automatic
Each link must be updated separately
Quantity that can be stored
Limited by space
Limited by space to an extent but removable media can be used
Exhibit Changes
Must be made to individually to each occurrence
Automatic when change saved to file
Multiple occurrences
Add each individually
One file linked multiple times
Supported by Second Site No
Yes

16. Image Size
Dimension
Resolution
Colour